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TIL the US military uses jet fuel (JP-8) not only in planes, but in ground vehicles like tanks aswell

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pX7Z TIL that female dragonflies will fake their own death just to avoid mating.
J1LdV TIL that Little Caesars Pizza once said in a press release, "if you lined up all the Crazy Bread sold in a year it would circle the earth three times."
Z8N7a TIL that during the soviet era, Polish artists created official movie posters for international movies that were released in Poland. Bypassing governmental control, iconic and unique movie posters emerged, expressing the true spirit of the artists and looking nothing like the original posters.
woErJ TIL Dean Mahomed opened the first Indian restaurant in England, was the first Indian to publish a book in English, and introduced shampoo baths to Europe.
wx76 TIL the “pencil test” was used during Apartheid in South Africa to decide if a child got to grow up white or “coloured” (biracial). If your hair wasn’t curly enough to hold a pencil, you “passed” as white.